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TIL there is a Truman Show-type village in the Netherlands created for dementia patients.

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A4Jd TIL when AC/DC was accused of backmasking Satanic messages in “Highway To Hell”, guitarist Angus Young said “you didn’t need to play [the album] backwards, because we never hid [the messages]. We’d call an album Highway To Hell, there it was right in front of them.”
yQ6Jw TIL of the Pamir, the last commercial sailing ship, operated until 1957
e0Z16 TIL of Frank Bourne, the last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift. At 22 he was the youngest Colour Sergeant in the British Army at the time. He ultimately reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and died aged 91 in 1945, on VE Day
4kNXN TIL about Confederados- Descendants of Southerners who fled to Brazil after the Civil War
b95Dp TIL: Oranges are a hesperidium, a kind of modified berry with sectioned pulp inside a separable rind. The sweet orange, which accounts for 70% of global orange production, is a hybrid of ancient cultivated origin between a pomelo and a mandarin.